Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-647 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-647

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the provisions of Senate Bill 549, Acts of the 59th Legislature, Regular Session, 1965, Chapter 343, page 729, codified in Vernon’s as Article 7044a, Vernon’s Civil Statutes, providing a deadline for furnishing the county tax assessor-collector the tax rate adapted by a taxing authority, are applicable to Brazoria County.
Date: April 7, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5789 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5789

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Salaries of the county officials of Brazoria County and their deputies.
Date: January 7, 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Breakwater. (open access)

Breakwater.

Patent for improving seawalls to "preserve channels across the bars at the mouths of rivers, creeks, or canals and between bays and gulfs" (lines 6-8), including illustration.
Date: June 7, 1859
Creator: Armour, D. Hillen
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Fastener (open access)

Sash-Fastener

Patent for improving the design so that when it is closed it forms loops for holding the window's curtains, while also being inexpensive and strong.
Date: May 7, 1901
Creator: Durant, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burner. (open access)

Oil-Burner.

Patent for oil burners that is designed specifically for burning crude fuel oil that also has improved construction that centers the spray head with the burner head.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: Booker, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History